Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You

Reynolds, Luke

ISBN 10: 1582705542 / ISBN 13: 9781582705545

Published by Aladdin/Beyond Words, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You
• Publisher: Aladdin/Beyond Words
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582705542
• ISBN 13: 9781582705545
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this hilarious guide full of honest, real-life experiences, veteran teacher Luke Reynolds skillfully and humorously shows kids how to not only survive, but thrive and even enjoy the wild adventure that is middle school.

Middle grade series like The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries bring an authentic voice and vision to fiction about middle schoolers. Now, for the first time a nonfiction guide to middle school offers that same funny and relatable voice, while skillfully teaching life lessons to not just help kids find their footing during the tough years between elementary and high school, but to find the joy in their new adventures and challenges.

Author and teacher Luke Reynolds uses irreverent humor, genuine affection for middle schoolers, and authenticity that bubbles over as he ties real-life experiences from his own time in middle school to the experiences he has from his many years as a teacher.

Covering topics like bullying, peer pressure, grades, dealing with difficult parents, and love and romance, this rare book reaches kids at a deeper level during an age when they are often considered too young to appreciate it. Readers will learn to find their own voice, begin to explore their genuine identity, and definitely laugh out loud along the way.

About the Author

Luke Reynolds has been teaching for twenty years--first as a public high school and middle school teacher, and currently as a professor in Endicott College's School of Education. As a dad to four sons, Luke is a pasisonate believer in the power of imagination, connection, play, and authenticity to help us all grow and connect with one another. The two most important jobs he's learned from are: 1) being a stay-at-home-dad and 2) being a 32-year old paperboy. Each taught him how much more he had to learn--which is a big part of what life is all about. Luke still loves garlic bread, and he's always on the lookout for...SPACE GNOMES! His favorite word is perspicacious. His favorite tree is the Japanese maple. His favorite ice cream is cookie dough. His most sublime vision of how to relax and restore? Eating cookie dough ice cream with his family under a big Japanese Maple tree while reading perspicacious poetry aloud.